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Elie Wiesel
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Giving Back
100
The place where all Jews (including Elie and his family) were forced to live before being sent to concentration camps
What is the Ghetto?
100
He tutors Elie.
What is Moshe the Beadle?
100
Elie Wiesel's Night shows that it can diminish and even fail when faced with unspeakable horror and suffering.
What is faith?
100
Elie manages to stay with him for the duration of their incarceration.
Who is Elie's father?
100

This is the busiest month for giving to charity.

What is December?

200
The largest and best known concentration camp where Elie and his family were first sent
What is Auschwitz?
200
The reason Elie is sent to the infirmary.
What is an infected foot?
200

This necessity of life consumes the thoughts of most prisoners and their bellies.

What is food?

200
His warnings are ignored near the beginning of the story.
Who is Moshe the Beadle?
200

The age of the average charity donor. 

What is 64?

300
The reason Elie is sent to the dentist
What is his gold crown?
300
Elie's religious realization on the eve of Rosh Hashanah.
What is lost his faith in God?
300
This instinct compels some of the prisoners to fight even their own family members for food and other resources.
What is survival?
300
He is the doctor of Auschwitz, famous for his ous "selections" and horrific experiments.
Who is Dr. Mengele?
300

America's oldest surviving charity, the Scots' Charitable Society, was founded in 1657 in this city.

What is Boston?

400
What Mrs. Schacter hallucinates.
What is a large fire?
400
The study of Jewish mysticism.
What is Cabbalah?
400

When Elie has thoughts of abandoning his father and using his power to help himself instead of Schlomo, this archetype is most evident. 

What is father-son conflict?

400
He is the cruel Kapo who whips Elie.
Who is Idek?
400

ABC and Little Brownie Bakeries make the world famous cookies of this organization. 

What is Girl Scouts of America?

500
It happens to the sick prisoners who stay behind in the infirmary when the camp is evacuated.
What is liberated?
500
The number that was tattooed on Elie's arm.
What is A-7713?
500

In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Wiesel notes that this 12-letter word is one of the worst dangers of all in the face of human suffering. 

What is indifference?

500
The violinist who plays one last concerto before dying.
Who is Juliek?
500

To the nearest thousand, approximately this many endangered species exist, according to earth.org.

What is 16?